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An Adventure called Jackie

 

Life is an adventure, do not know where you embark on an interesting journey and where you disembark off the same, and more when you're somebody different.

 

I'm Latino and increasingly proud of it, I was in different academies, met many people, great mentors, mediocre officers, great classmates and some other crazy but we were all a brotherhood in order.

 

I was called to be part of a select group of instructors who embarked on a new adventure, yeap,  a…

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Added by Philips Chan on July 2, 2013 at 12:42pm — No Comments

Geometry, Physics and Chemistry

Geometry, Physics and Chemistry



I really asked me when I was in high school, why the heck I would serve these materials in my life of adult. Who knew that today not only use these materials but many more, such as: math, calculus, and others to help firefighters battle the monster that the fire is.

There are some methods today to fight the fire, one of them is indirectly, That means applying in hot…

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Added by Philips Chan on June 26, 2013 at 2:05pm — No Comments

One team, one fight

 

"One team, one fight"



Read norms do not make us firefighters, studying the SOP does not make us better firefighters, fulfill our shift does not make us better firefighters, today to be a firefighter goes beyond all that, it is to read every day, it is to study every day, it is to return to basics and share that with our brothers from the firehouse.

I spent just over two months at Latin America and I've noticed that they have forgotten to read, they have forgotten…

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Added by Philips Chan on June 19, 2013 at 12:56pm — No Comments

La confianza, nuestro enemigo.

Cuando somos novatos estamos pendientes de lo que nuestros superiores o gente más antigua en el departamento nos diga. En la academia sólo nos indican lo que hay que hacer por teoría y básicamente una que otra práctica controlada. Pero al pasar el tiempo llegamos a tal punto que hacemos nuestro trabajo casi mecánicamente y con tal confianza que ya ni lo pensamos. Ese es un peligro latente en nuestro trabajo como bombero, ya que descuidamos cosas básicas como al levantar una escalera…

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Added by Philips Chan on September 21, 2012 at 10:27am — No Comments

Let's help R.I.C./Ayudemos al R.IC. (Spanish & English)

Spanish:

R.I.C. Rapid Intervention Crew en sus siglas en Ingles, es un grupo de intervención rápida, grupo de bomberos que nos ayudarán bajo ciertas situaciones mas alla de lo normal y las que nos pude pasar y estar envueltos, a estas situaciones las llamamos "Mayday" usando el radio.

Como ayudamos a R.I.C., tan simple como poniendo en funcionamiento L.U.N.A.R. cinco letras que nos salvarán la vida y que harán mas fácil la labor al R.I.C.

Al entrar en…

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Added by Philips Chan on September 21, 2012 at 10:18am — No Comments

Achieving the Immortality (In Spanish and English)

Alcanzar la inmortalidad

Ser Bombero es extremadamente increíble no hay nada comparado con salvar una vida, salvar una propiedad, rescatar a un ser viviente, hasta que descubres que ser instructor de bomberos te hace alcanzar la inmortalidad.

De joven quería ser inmortal y conseguí la formula y de la mejor manera, siendo parte de la profesión mas bella e interesante del mundo, ser Instructor de bomberos, se preguntaran por qué? Porque cuando le enseñas a alguien técnicas de…

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Added by Philips Chan on September 12, 2012 at 6:30pm — No Comments

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